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I followed this answer to install termite. Now my Gnome terminal is not starting at all and I only get this error when launching it from termite:

Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: Timeout was reached

I tried to purge and install again but I still have the same problem.

Even removing the symlink that answer indicated to create has not helped. How can I restore it?

Thanks

b-fg
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  • I did not intent to replace it. I am launching it from there because from dash is not starting and I wanted to see the error output. No matter where I launch it from, it never starts. – b-fg Jun 06 '19 at 03:44
  • Please let them (at the linked answer) know that their instuctions are broken! – egmont Jun 06 '19 at 07:57

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It looks like installing an old version of vte-ng is incompatible with the the version gnome-terminal requires. This is a known bug as posted here.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=235680

https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/87iush/psa_if_you_have_vte3ng_installed_you_have_to/

I had to run make uninstall from the vtg-ng folder I downloaded from GitHub to recover my gnome-terminal.

b-fg
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    Installing vte-ng, per se, does not break gnome-terminal. What breaks gnome-terminal is if you install an older version of vte-ng than the system vte, in a way that gnome-terminal will try to load this older vte-ng. – egmont Jun 06 '19 at 07:58